A book report on old man and the sea by ernest hemingway

The work of fiction in which Hemingway devoted the most attention to natural objects, The Old Man and the Sea, is pieced out with an extraordinary quantity of fakery, extraordinary because one would expect to find no inexactness, no romanticizing of natural objects in a writer who loathed W.

Unable to haul in the great marlin, Santiago is instead pulled by the marlin, and two days and nights pass with Santiago holding onto the line. It's also about three days in a boat in which most of the action takes place in the title character's head, punctuated by graphic descriptions of, say, the gutting of fish.

The story had been in his mind for years. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to help ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many others are driven away. His apprentice, Manolin, defies the wishes of his parents and continues to help him, even though they want Manolin to sail with fishermen who actually catch fish.

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Retrieved January 31, Init was made into a movie starring Spencer Tracy. The entire time, Santiago endures constant pain from the fishing line.

The old man is an old man … The sharks are all sharks no better and no worse. Readers young and old are rarely ambivalent about this book -- it's either love or hate, often mixed with a hefty dose of parody Hemingway at times writes like a macho parody of himself.

Background and publication[ edit ] No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in Stay up to date on new reviews. Of course, Hemingway was a known and respected author beforehand, but The Old Man and the Sea elevated his reputation to the literary giant we think of today.

It's also somewhat fraught with a late-in-life perspective that may be largely lost on young readers. Upon reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving the fish head and the bones on the shore.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. On the way home, sharks pick up the trail of blood left by the dead fish and begin coming after it.

Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, he will venture far out into the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end. Santiago is able to ward off several of the sharks, but they keep coming.

The story opens with Santiago having gone 84 days without catching a fish, and now being seen as "salao", the worst form of unluckiness. The answer assumes a third level on which The Old Man and the Sea must be read—as a sort of allegorical commentary on all his previous work, by means of which it may be established that the religious overtones of The Old Man and the Sea are not peculiar to that book among Hemingway's works, and that Hemingway has finally taken the decisive step in elevating what might be called his philosophy of Manhood to the level of a religion.

On the third day the fish tires, and Santiago, sleep-deprived, aching, and nearly delirious, manages to pull the marlin in close enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust.

The novel was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. He prepares his lines and drops them. I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks.

It was the last novel Hemingway wrote during his lifetime; his subsequent novels were published posthumously.

Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old man upon his return each night. The story centers on the protagonist, Santiago, an old Cuban man and seasoned fisherman who has gone several weeks without catching any fish. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. On the way home, sharks pick up the trail of blood left by the dead fish and begin coming after it.

Santiago makes much of the fact that he doesn't have a radio on which to listen to baseball. The boy, worried about the old man, cries upon finding him safe asleep and at his injured hands.

Plot summary[ edit ] The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of a battle between an aging, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin. Eventually, the sharks pick the marlin clean. Retrieved February 1, Manolin sits with Santiago until he awakes and then gives the old man some coffee.

Like Santiago, Fuentes was gaunt and thin, had blue eyes, came from the Canary Islands, and had a long, battle-scarred history as a fisherman.The Old Man and the Sea became a book-of-the-month selection, made Hemingway an international celebrity, "Reports false.

Enroute Madrid. Love Papa." However, he was seriously ill and believed himself to be on the verge of a breakdown. Background of the Old Man & the Sea.

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He was born at the turn of the century in. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf agronumericus.coms: K.

“The Old Man and the Sea” is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway () and published in It was the last novel Hemingway wrote during his lifetime; his subsequent novels were published posthumously. It is considered one of his four best novels, along with “A Farewell to Arms,” “The Sun Also Rises,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”.

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The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed.